Community joins together to remember Madera boy killed when a truck crashed into…

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) —

From the space you possibly can hear the sorrow, echoing throughout the basketball courtroom outdoors of Webster Elementary Faculty.

The concrete pavement serving because the mourning grounds for household and buddies of eleven-yr-previous Luis “Tito” Lopez.

His shut pal, who shared his first identify and love of soccer, says the sudden loss is insufferable.

“Dropping him was like dropping a brother. I beloved him very a lot however typically it’s a must to discover ways to let go,” stated Luis Vallejo.

Many others grappled with those self same emotions as they shed tears of heartache and ache.

“He was identical to a bit of brother to me there once I wanted him he was there making my days,” Luisa Vallejo.

“He was very younger and it is simply so unhappy for me.”

Julio Moncada is Luis’ uncle. He says it isn’t the primary time his household has confronted tragedy. Again in 2009, Luis’ uncle Sgt. Raul Moncada was killed whereas in Iraq after an explosive gadget detonated close to his car.

In 2014, his grandfather was killed in an accident with an Amtrak practice in Madera County. Moncada was current for the newest one. A sound he’ll always remember.

“I assumed a tree fell on the home and once I ran out simply the odor of fuel it was simply so unreal,” stated Julio Moncada.

Nevertheless, as an alternative of specializing in how Luis died, family members are selecting to recollect the life he lived. They are saying he was a straight-A scholar and a respectful and accountable younger boy.

“He was all the time the primary one up within the morning prepared for college helped with breakfast you by no means needed to inform him to take out the trash or something,” stated aunt Alex Aguliar.

They’re additionally comforting his 9-yr-previous brother Matthew who was within the room as nicely. He attended the candlelight vigil on crutches after being injured within the crash.

“There’s smiles on his face and a bit of little bit of unhappiness,” Moncada.